On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:02:46 -0700 (PDT), alex wetmore wrote: >Has anyone figured out a good way to use the Pentax Photo Lab to >generate JPEG proofs of your photographs when you shoot in raw?
>You can do a batch conversion by starting the Photo Lab application >standalone and opening a bunch of files. The problem is that it saves >the JPEGs with an insanely high quality setting (higher than JPEG *** >on the camera, I'm getting 6-7mb files). Ideally I'd like to have it >scale the image to 50% and save it as a medium quality JPEG. These >would just be used for cataloging the images and putting them on the >web. I load the files into Photo Lab from Photo Browser rather than as a stand alone, that way you can see exactly what images you are loading. just select the files you want and click on the Photo Lab icon and they all load in. I generally set the image how I want it and then save as a 16 bit tiff and then do final editing in Photoshop before saving. I also have a lot of macros set up in Photoshop so I can make common changes at the touch of a button. If you want to simply compress the Photo Lab jpegs then you can try a program like Xat (from www.xat.com). It compresses files well without too much loss. >For images that I'd like to print or do some heavier editting on this >would leave me with the original RAW files. There are many advantages >to working directly with RAW (editing exposure and saturation after >the fact is wonderful), but I haven't figured out a way to do so that >isn't cumbersome. >The utility "dcraw" now has the ability to read *ist D RAW files too, >but it can't read the white balance setting from them so it's default >rendering looks terrible. I'm hoping that someone will write a Photoshop plugin, and that ACDSee (which Pentax have used in the past) will soon be able to read istD RAW files. For the time being I can cope with the cumbersomeness I have to deal with. Leon http://www.bluering.org.au http://www.bluering.org.au/leon
